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Thursday Feb 18, 2010

Oracle Data Mining was used by the performance analysis team of the BMW/Oracle Racing team in their preparation to win the America's Cup race off the coast of Spain.

The America's Cup has been away from U.S. shores for 15 years, the longest drought since 1851. With the challenge of squeezing out every micro-joule of energy from the wind and with the goal of maximizing "velocity made good", the BMW Oracle Racing Team turned to Oracle Data Mining.

"Imagine standing under an avalanche of data
- 2500 variables, 10 times per second and a sailing team demanding
answers to design and sailing variations immediately. This was the
challenge facing the BMW ORACLE Racing Performance Analysis Team every
sailing day as they refined and improved their giant 90 foot wide, 115
foot long trimaran sporting the largest hard-sail wing ever made. Using
ORACLE DATA MINING accessing an ORACLE DATABASE and presenting results
real time using ORACLE APPLICATION EXPRESS the performance team managed
to provide the information required to optimise the giant multihull to
the point that it not only beat the reigning America's Cup champions
Alinghi in their giant Catamaran but resoundingly crushed them in a
power display of high speed sailing. After two races - and two massive
winning margins - the America's Cup was heading back to America - a
triumph for the team, ORACLE and American technology." --Ian Burns, Performance Director, BMW ORACLE Racing Team